I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.
I also think that [political turmoil] gives artists something, a way of kind of processing.
I think sometimes the stars align whether we want them to or not. And we're drawn to certain people and places for no other reason than. . . Destiny.
And I would stop and take you in, all of you, and when our eyes lock we'd just stare into each other's souls and all of the lost time would come out in the shape of a big smile, a few tears and a tight hug that feels like. . . I don't know, it would feel like home.
Love makes you smart and strong. Smart enough to know there is nothing else that matters. Strong enough to know that nothing else can weaken you. When you're in love, you're at peace, you're whole, and always safe. I know I made you feel at peace.
I really hope that people feel permission to talk about their own troubles, but also to celebrate themselves.
We kind of have to rewrite our own stories and our own ways of being free.
It's a business now. But you still have little butterflies in your stomach before every game.
Galileo wrote that 'the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics; without its help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it. '
I was just working in the shop and all of a sudden something just triggered in me and I started shaking. And then I walked back into the house and my wife asked, 'What's the matter?' and I said 'I don't feel good. ' And tears - uncontrollable tears - was coming out of my eyes. And she said, 'What's the matter?' And I said 'I just thought about that execution I did two days ago, and everybody else's that I was involved with. ' And what it was something triggered within and it just - everybody - all of these executions all of a sudden sprung forward.
You know, I've been attending so many banquets that I know what they're going to serve before I get there.